[Bug 230608] missing config.h in latest -14

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:17 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:05 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > >> ------- Additional Comments From rnorwood at redhat.com  2007-03-01 14:38 EST -------
> > >> Balint,
> > >>
> > >> Yes, this is related to our splitting out perl-devel in -14 - 'yum install
> > >> perl-devel' should fix the problem.  See bug #226276
> > > 
> > > AFAIS, this change seems to break building of any perl-module.
> > > 
> > > => All perl modules' spec files from now on would require to change all
> > > perl-modules to "BuildRequire: perl-devel" - 
> > > Are you seriously wanting this?
> > > 
> > > As this thing doesn't seem to be baked yet[1], and as I don't want to
> > > see FE-6 and FE-5 being locked out from updates, for now, I will ignore
> > > this issue on rawhide, i.e. you will likely see broken EVRs between
> > > rawhide and older FE, on my perl-modules, soon.
> > 
> > The same issue will affect the grepmail update I'm just about to do as 
> > well. I'm not adding the perl=devel buildreq just yet until a firm 
> > decision on whether all modules have to BR: perl=devel is made.
> > 
> > > [1] Why is such a massive change being introduced such kind of late in a
> > > release cycle? IMO, it's way to late, and should be postponed to F8 once
> > > things have been sorted out.
> > 
> > It's clearly come about as a result of the perl spec cleanup during the 
> > merge review, but I think splitting out perl-devel at this point is a 
> > bit late given the number of packages that will need changing (unless as 
> > Ralf suggests, the hack of adding perl-devel to the FC7 buildroot is made).
> 
> I don't see any fault in adding perl-devel to the FC7 buildroot, with
> the caveat that it will not be there in FC8+. Thoughts?

IMO, this perl-devel package isn't baked, yet. I needs to prove at least
some amount of longevity/sustainablity and meaningfulness.

E.g.
* should _all_ perl packages now BR: perl-devel?
* should config.h remain part of perl?
* Why does perl need config.h (a c-header) when building noarch
packages, which do not use a compiler at all?

Therefore, I think forcing package to depend on perl-devel would be
premature. Adding perl-devel to the buildroot would at least help to
postpone the consequences of perl-devel.

Ralf